 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 506 oldal
...according as his judgment and reason shall dictate to him. A law of nature, lex naturalis, is a precept or general rule, found out by reason, by which a man...thinketh it may be best preserved. For though they who speak of this subject, use to confound jus, and lex, right and law ; yet they ought to be distinguished... | |
 | 1908 - 768 oldal
...according as his judgment and reason shall dictate to him. A LAW OF NATURE, lex naturalis, is a precept or general rule, found out by reason, by which a man...though they that speak of this subject use to confound fus and lex, right and law: yet they ought to be distinguished; because RIGHT consisteth in liberty... | |
 | Bergedorf, Hamburg, Ger. Hansaschule - 1908 - 226 oldal
...the Preservation of his own Nature; that is to say of his own Life. A Law of Nature is a Precept or general Rule, found out by Reason, by which a Man...that, by which he thinketh it may be best preserved. ') Corp. Pol. I, 11. Seeing to the Offensiveness of Mans Nature one to another, there is added a Right... | |
 | Francis Rolt-Wheeler - 1909 - 346 oldal
...shall conceive to be the aptest means thereunto. "A law of nature, 'lex naturalis,' is a precept or general rule, found out by reason, by which a man...by which he thinketh it may be best preserved. For tho they that speak of this subject use' to confound 'jus' and 'lex,' 'right* and 'law,' yet they ought... | |
 | René Descartes - 1910 - 446 oldal
...as his judgment and reason shall dictate to him. A ' law of Nature,' lex natural!*, is a precept or general rule found out by reason by which a man is...subject use to confound jus and lex, ' right ' and Maw,' yet they ought to be distinguished; because 'right' consisteth in liberty to do or to forbear,... | |
 | James Seth - 1912 - 404 oldal
...upon which men may be drawn to agreement.' 3 These articles of peace are those ' Laws of Nature ' ' by which a man is forbidden to do that which is destructive...that, by which he thinketh it may be best preserved.' * They are immutable and eternal, since ' it can never be that war 1 I*v., pt. i. ch. xiii. 2 Works,... | |
 | Sir John Macdonell, Edward Manson - 1914 - 684 oldal
...source. The Lawa of Nature. — The laws of nature according to Hobbes are precepts or general rules "found out by reason, by which a man is forbidden...; and to omit that, by which he thinketh it may be preserved." This is not, he tells us, to be confused with " the right of nature " (jus naturale) which... | |
 | 1918 - 834 oldal
...inverts the argument from design. He declares that the laws of nature are precepts or general rules " found out by reason, by which a man is forbidden to...same; and to omit that by which he thinketh it may be preserved." He then enunciates the " first, and fundamental law of nature " to be " to seek peace and... | |
 | Edwin De Witt Dickinson - 1918 - 844 oldal
...their natural reason." Klseit was defined a« precepts or rules found out by reason, by which a nan is forbidden to do, that, which is destructive of...same; and to omit, that, by which he thinketh it may he best preserved. 6 4 Dominion , XIV, 1, in English Works , Vol. II, p. 183; Leviathan", Pt. II, chap.... | |
 | William Ritchie Sorley - 1920 - 418 oldal
...preservation of his own nature, that is to say of his own life." And the law of nature " is a precept or general rule, found out by reason, by which a man...that by which he thinketh it may be best preserved." The one asserts a liberty, the other imposes an obligation. But what is permitted and what is required... | |
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A LAW OF NATURE, (lex naturalis,) is a precept, or general rule, found out by reason, by which a man is forbidden to do that, which is destructive of his life, or taketh away the means of preserving the same; and to omit that, by which he thinketh it... 
